> Starlink is become the only affordable and usable options in suburban to rural US. People I know are paying hundreds of dollars per month for 8mbps peak with 300+ms ping. They can barely stream any modern media, poor voice calls, poor video streams etc.
BTW This is in extraordinarily wealthy areas, if you take it to much poorer locations, their only infra exists within range of a single cell tower on a hill in the nearest town you're sharing with everyone who owns a cell phone. They just don't have it.
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